Delhi Every conversation Dharmendra Kumar, ACORN India’s Delhi Director, and I had about our communities in East Delhi and especially about our emerging unions of informal workers, kept running into the up coming Commonwealth Games to be held starting October 3rd a little less than 6 months away. This was especially the case when he …
Author: wade
Doha to Delhi Time Warp
Delhi There’s no way around it – moving half-way across the world still is a schlep, as they say, even at these prices. I climbed onto Qatar Airlines, heavily promoted as a 5 star carrier, in Dulles (DC) a little before midnight on Monday night and stepped off the plane in Delhi at 3 AM …
Inspector General: 287g a Failure
New Orleans The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started taking a hard look at whether the controversial 287g program of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency almost from the day President Obama took office. This program subcontracts enforcement of immigration laws to local city and county police and sheriff’s departments …